中文摘要：爱丽丝·沃克是二十世纪美国文坛最有影响的作家之一，曾获得普利策奖。她所撰写的书信体小说《紫色》充分体现了她所提倡的妇女主义。

本文在简要介绍作者爱丽丝·沃克及《紫色》的基础上，旨在探讨书中所运用的书信体叙事策略：一方面，分析其书信体要素的空白与存现的灵活运用，从而让读者深入了解主人公西丽的成长与觉醒过程；另一方面，在简要分析原有的黑人奴隶叙事的基础上，阐述作者是如何将书信体叙事模式与奴隶叙事模式相结合，同时又对奴隶叙事模式进行颠覆性创造。也正因为其独特的书信体叙事策略，展现了西丽的女性意识觉醒过程。

本文希望对《紫色》中书信体叙事策略进行详细分析，从而为后续的相关研究提供借鉴价值。

关键词：紫色-书信体-奴隶叙事-女性意识

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT

中文摘要

Chapter One Introduction-1

1.1-Introduction of Alice Walker and The Color Purple-1

1.2-Rise and decline of epistolary novel-2

1.3-Literature review-3

Chapter Two Analysis of Epistolary Narrative Strategy-4

2.1 Application and innovation of epistolary form.-4

-2.1.2-Existence or nonexistence of letterhead.-4

-2.1.3-Existence or nonexistence of Amen-5

2.2-Concealing and revealing of character names.-6

Chapter Three Preservation and Subversion of Slavery Narrative.-8

3.1-Introduction of slave narrative.-8

3.2-Preservation of slave narrative.-9

-3.2.1 Autobiographic narrative.-9

-3.2.2-Criminal confession.-10

-3.2.3-Conversion narrative.-10

3.3-Subversion of slave narrative-11

-3.3.1-Subversion of autobiographical narrative.-11

-3.3.2-Subversion of conversion narrative.-12

Chapter Four Epistolary Form and Female Consciousness-14

4.1 Acquisition of Celie’s female voice.-14

4.2 Transformation of Celie's language style-15

4.3 Awakening of Celie's female consciousness-16

Chapter Five Conclusion.-18

REFERENCES-19

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS-20